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Cognitive Information Processing Theory James P. Sampson, Jr. Debra S. Osborn 1 Keynote Presentation for Asia Pacific Career Development Association 2015 Annual Conference September 14-17, Tokyo, Japan Aims of CIP Theory • To help individuals become skillful career problem solvers and decision makers. • Emphasis on creating a learning event. • Provide a framework for career decision making that is easily explained to clients. 2
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Cognitive Information Processing Theory
James P. Sampson, Jr. Debra S. Osborn
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Keynote Presentation for Asia Pacific Career Development Association2015 Annual Conference
September 14-17, Tokyo, Japan
Aims of CIP Theory
• To help individuals become skillful career problem solvers and decision makers.
• Emphasis on creating a learning event.
• Provide a framework for career decision making that is easily explained to clients.
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Common Career Concerns
• Making an initial choice of major/career• Identifying possible career options• Seeking career change• Need for specific career information• Understanding interests, personalities• Job searching advice, resume writing
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CIP Theory Components & Applications
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Pyramid of Information Processing Domains
Executive Processing Domain
Knowledge Domains
Decision-Making Skills Domain
SelfKnowledge
OccupationalKnowledge
CASVE Cycle
Meta-cognitions
Pyramid of Information Processing Domains
Knowing about myself
Knowing about my options
Knowing how I make decisions
Thinking about my decision
making
Client Version
CASVE CycleCommunication
Identifying theproblem - the gap
AnalysisThinking about
alternatives
ExecutionTaking action tonarrow the gap
SynthesisGenerating likely
alternatives
ValuingPrioritizingalternatives
CASVE Cycle - Client VersionKnowing I Need to Make a ChoiceKnowing I Made a
Good Choice
Understanding Myself andMy Options
ImplementingMy Choice
Expanding andNarrowing My List
of Options
Choosing AnOccupation, Program
of Study, or Job
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Translating Concepts for Client Use
• Pyramid
– What’s involved in career choice
– The content of career choice
– What you need to know
– Informed choice
• The CASVE Cycle
– A guide to good decision making
– The process of career choice
– What you need to do
– Careful choice
Career Readiness
Readiness is the capability of an individual to make informed and careful career choices taking into account the complexityof family, social, economic, and organizational factors that influence career development
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Accurate Assessment of Individual Needs
• Capability concerns internal factors that make it more, or less, difficult to decide about occupational, educational, training, or employment options
• Complexity concerns external factors that make it more, or less, difficult to decide, such as the family, society, the economy, or organizations
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Accurate Assessment of Individual Needs
• Readiness and Decision-Making Difficulty
• Differences in readiness for career decision making explains why some individuals have difficulty in making career decisions while other individuals do not
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Accurate Assessment of Individual Needs
• Expanded Model of Readiness
• The original model was recently expanded to include variables contributing to low readiness for effective use of career interventions– Personal characteristics– Personal circumstances– Limited knowledge of self, options, and decision
making– Prior experience with career interventions
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Accurate Assessment of Individual Needs
• Personal characteristics– Acute and/or chronic negative thoughts and
feelings– Limited verbal aptitude– Limited language proficiency– Limited computer literacy
• Personal circumstances– Acute and/or chronic external barriers
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Accurate Assessment of Individual Needs
• Limited knowledge of self, options, and decision making– Limited life experience– Limited inclination to reflect on self-knowledge
gained from life experience– Limited knowledge of occupations,
educational/training providers, or employers– Limited knowledge about the decision-making
process
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Accurate Assessment of Individual Needs
• Prior experience with career interventions– Limited prior experience with career resources– Inappropriate expectations about career choice
and career services– Negative prior experience with career interventions
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Relating Readiness to Interventions
In the CIP differentiated service delivery model, the level of service delivery (self-help, brief staff-assisted, individual case managed) is directly related to the decision-making readiness of the individual
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Relating Readiness to Interventions
Self-help services Brief staff-assisted services
Individual case-managed services
Readiness of the user High Moderate LowAmount of staff assistance provided
Little or none Minimal Substantial
Who guides use of resources and services
The user A practitioner A practitioner
Where services are provided
Resource room or at a distance via the Internet or telephone
Resource room, classroom, group settings, or at a distance via the Internet or telephone
Individual office, classroom, group setting, or at a distance via the Internet or telephone
Selection and sequencing of resources and services
Resource guides Individual learning plans
Individual learning plans
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Assumptions of the Model
• All young people and adults are greeted as they enter the career resource room by a trained staff member
• Young people and adults can seek assistance on a self-help basis
• If problems occur with the use of self-help resources, staff are available to reassess needs and make further recommendations about the use career resources and an appropriate level of service delivery
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Assumptions of the Model
• Young people and adults and staff collaborate in deciding on an appropriate level of service delivery and appropriate resources
• Resource guides and individual learning plans are available to help young people and adults select, locate, sequence, and use resources
• No matter what the level of service delivery provided (including self-help), staff periodically check with all young people and adults to determine if their needs are being met
Specific Elements of the CIP Differentiated Model
21Florida State University Career Center
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Differentiated Service Delivery
• The three levels of service include
– Self-help services for young people and adults with high readiness for decision making
– Brief staff-assisted services for young people and adults with moderate readiness
– Individual case-managed services for young people and adults with low readiness
Differentiated Service Delivery Model
Comprehensive Screening
Individual Enters
Self-HelpServices
BriefStaff-Assisted
Services
IndividualCase-Managed
Services
Self or StaffReferral
Brief Screening
Complete differentiated model of delivering career resources and services
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Moving Between Levels of Service
• Readiness for career decision making can improve over time
• Persons can move between levels of service delivery
• Or, some individuals have difficulty in using resources and need more help, and move to a higher level of service
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A Generic Sequence for Services
1. Intake 2. Screening 3. Problem identification 4. Goal setting 5. Service delivery planning 6. Resource and service use 7. Problem review
Individual enters the center
Brief screening
Self-help services
Safety net for self-help services“Are you finding the information you need?
Drop-in service – Brief staff-assisted services
Drop-in service – Brief staff-assisted services
Comprehensive screening – Readiness assessment
Individual counseling
Career course
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Service Delivery Tools
• Signage/Map
• Resource Room & Resource Guides
• Handouts
• Diagnostic Assessment
• Individual Learning Plans
Resource guides
Resource guides
Information handout
Career Center Web site
Anticipated Challenges
• In CIP, self-help and brief staff-assisted interventions provide a substantial proportion of services delivered
• However, providing effective self-help and brief interventions is not as easy as it might appear
• Self-help resources readily available on the Internet vary greatly in quality
• Some individuals have difficulty in linking their needs to specific self-help resources 40
Anticipated Challenges
• Brief staff-assisted interventions are not simply shortened versions of individual case-managed interventions
• Service delivery tools (such as resource guides, diagnostic assessment, and individual learning plans) and resources (such as information handouts), as well as career resource rooms and Web sites are crucial elements in delivering self-help and brief staff-assisted services 41
Recent Research
• What is the effect of a brief-assisted career counseling model on general outcomes?
• What are the attitudes of drop-in clients regarding the effectiveness of a brief-assisted career counseling model?
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ANOVA Pre/Post Test Results
Significant changes on each variableMedium ES for knowledge & confidenceSmall ES for anxiety
Process Indicators
Use and Impact of the CIP Approach
• The CIP differentiated service delivery approach has been used at the Florida State University Career Center for the past 42 years
• The approach has been applied to other higher education career centers and school career guidance programs in the United States and other countries worldwide
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Use and Impact of the CIP Approach
• The CIP approach guided the redesign of one-stop career and employment services in the states of Oklahoma and North Carolina, as well as regional career services in central England and national all-age career guidance services in Scotland and Northern Ireland.
• Organizations have implemented the CIP differentiated service delivery approach to varying degrees
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Use and Impact of the CIP Approach
• Some organizations implemented the complete approach
• Other organizations selected specific elements that fit with other models already in use
• The approach can be implemented in a variety of ways as long as services are based on individual needs, as opposed to a one-size-fits-all method
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Use and Impact of the CIP Approach
• In terms of impact, the CIP differentiated service delivery approach has been shown to improve- career decidedness- vocational identity- choice satisfaction- self-knowledge- career option knowledge
and to decrease- negative career thinking- anxiety- goal instability
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Use and Impact of the CIP Approach
• Clients perceived staff members as effective
• Clients had a clearer idea of next steps, were more confident of next steps, and were less anxious
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Conclusion
• Differentiated service delivery models can be effective in multiple settings
• The effectiveness of differentiated service delivery models is dependent on:– Reaching a shared understanding of how the
models work in practice– Making integrated use of technology in all levels of
service delivery– Carefully implementing the approaches– Adopting a serious commitment to continuous
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References
Sampson, J. P., Jr. (2008). Designing and implementing learning programs: A handbook for effective practice. Broken Arrow, OK: National Learning Development Association.
Sampson, J. P., Jr., Reardon, R. C., Peterson, G. W., & Lenz, J. G. (2004). Career counseling and services: A cognitive information processing approach. Pacific Grove, CA: Brooks/Cole.
For more information
www.career.fsu.edu/techcenter
